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DHX - Dependable Hawaiian Express

8/15/2019

Dear Valued Customer,

 

The following is provided for your information:

 

 

Holiday Schedules

The offices listed below will be closed for the holidays as follows:

Philippines	Ninoy Aquino Day National Heroes Day	August 21 August 26
United States	Labor Day	September 2
Malaysia	National Day Awal Muharam (Observed) Agong’s Birthday	August 31 September 2 September 9
China	Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival (Observed)	September 13
Hong Kong	Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival (Observed)	September 14

 

Please remember that certain offices are across the International Dateline. The dates above are their dates, not the actual U.S. date.

 

Labor Day Holiday Port Closures

 

Labor Day is a no-work holiday for select U.S. ports on the West Coast, Hawaii and Guam. Matson Navigation Company (“Matson”) has announced their Labor Day holiday port operating hours.

 

Long Beach	Monday, September 2	CY CLOSED Auto Lot CLOSED Shippers Transport 0700 to 1700
Oakland	Monday, September 2	CY CLOSED Auto Lot CLOSED
Seattle	Monday, September 2	CY CLOSED Auto Lot CLOSED
Honolulu	Monday, September 2	CY CLOSED Annex CLOSED Auto Lot CLOSED Office CLOSED
Hilo/Kawaihae	Monday, September 2	Hilo CY CLOSED Kawaihae CLOSED Auto Lot CLOSED District Office CLOSED
Nawiliwili	Monday, September 2	CY CLOSED Auto Lot CLOSED Office CLOSED
Kahului	Monday, September 2	CLOSED
Guam	Monday, September 2	CLOSED

Based on the above port schedule below are our cutoffs:

 

DHX Los Angeles

• Guam Hazmat Cargo 5:00 pm Thursday, August 29th
• Guam Non-Hazmat Cargo 5:00 pm Friday, August 30^th
• Hawaii Non-Hazmat Cargo 5:00 pm Tuesday, September 3rd
• There will be no Hawaii hazmat cargo sailing Wednesday, September 4^th. Hazmat cargo received August, 30^th thru September 5^th will sail the following Saturday, September 7^th.

DHX San Leandro

• Guam Hazmat Cargo 3:30 pm Thursday, August 29th
• Guam Non-Hazmat Cargo 12:00 pm Friday, August 30^th
• Hawaii Hazmat Cargo 12:00 pm Friday, August 30th
• Hawaii Non-Hazmat Cargo 3:30 pm Friday, August 30th

 

DHX Seattle

• No changes to our current cutoffs

 

 

New drop off location in the Pacific Northwest

 

We are moving our freight drop off location in Portland from Becker Trucking to Soniq Transportation & Warehouse.

 

New Location:

Soniq Transportation & Warehouse

5417 NE 148th Ave. Suite 201

Portland, OR 97230

Phone: 253–243-6270

Soniq is already accepting DHX freight at their dock. The same cutoffs of Tuesday 12:00 pm for hazardous freight and Wednesday 12:00 pm for all other freight will remain.

 

Scheduling pickups, tracking and tracing will be handled in the same manner by calling DHX Seattle 206-242-2827 or email seattle@dhx.com.

 

Becker Trucking’s last operating day will be August 30^th, 2019.

 

 

We're Proud of our Sustainability Record!

DHX-Dependable Hawaiian Express recently completed a carbon audit of their four owned warehouses and, based on our audit results, purchased carbon offsets in sufficient quantity to operate our facilities carbon neutral for 2019. This excludes our new Honolulu Warehouse, which opens September 1, 2019 and will be solar-powered by the end of 2019. We're proud of our record in leading Hawaiian freight companies in sustainably solutions at our facilities. We've done some great things, including:

 

• Solar panels (three locations are solar sufficient)
• Skylights at all facilities
• Charging stations for electric vehicles
• Converting to LED lighting
• Training drivers on sustainability and MPG management
• Paper recycling
• Pallet and plastic recycling at our Southern California facility
• Being a SmartWay Partner since 2012
• Compliant with California Air Resources Board’s “sparklist” requirements

 

Please visit our website at www.dhx.com and search under Sustainability, or follow the link to the Sustainability page of our website https://www.dhx.com/green.aspx for further information.

 

DHX Blog – Shipping Insights

 

We encourage you to visit our blog at www.dhx.com to see our latest updates, progress, helpful hints, and shipping insights. Once there you can access links to our Facebook pages, with some of more noteworthy items being:

 

New Honolulu Warehouse - We’ve built a new warehouse and distribution center in the heart of the industrial district in Honolulu. We currently plan to be moving into our building by the end of August.

 

Beard for Buck$ - A campaign to help raise money for charity, that will help the homeless in Hawaii. So far with our participating partnerships, with the pledges we’ve received, our and our partners’ total contributions to the selected charities will exceed $50,000!

 

The 2 charities listed below, will be receiving 100% of all donations:

• Kahauiki Village http://www.kahauiki.org
• The Salvation Army-Hawaiian and Pacific Islands https://fundraise.salvationarmyhawaii.org/give/184542/#!/donation/checkout

 

We hope that you join us in this fun, yet charitable cause. #beardforbucks#honolulu#hawaii

 

Just so you know, for a single donation of $10,000, Brad Dechter, the President of DHX-Dependable Hawaiian Express, and DGX (Dependable Global Express) dyed his beard purple, one of the official colors of Dependable Supply Chain Services, for a month! There is a picture of Brad and his purple beard on each of our social media channels.

 

THIS IS THE LAST MONTH! If you are thinking of donating to a worthy cause, this is it! We appreciate any donation you can make to help the homeless in Honolulu. Just click on the link above to the charity of your choice and be sure to tie your contribution in to the Beard for Buck$ campaign!

 

Should you have additional questions, please contact your local office, or our Corporate Customer Service center at 800-488-4888, Ext. 2020, or email us at custserv@dhx.com.

 

Thank you for your business - we appreciate it!